One more game. Stetson Bennett will pull on the silver britches and the “G” helmet a final time Monday, culminating a Georgia career that has surpassed even his most grandiose childhood dreams growing up in Blackshear, Ga., a minuscule map dot 220 miles south of Athens.
There will be emotions to compartmentalize, but getting through his final home game in Sanford Stadium was the tougher task. At age 3, Stetson told his father he wanted to be the quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs. In high school, he cried at the stadium reception that was part of his official campus visit. He walked on as a Bulldog, walked off to junior college after one season, then came back—because he got a scholarship, yeah, but mostly because he loves the place.
Monday, though, is more about business than nostalgia. A national championship is on the line. Against TCU in SoFi Stadium, Bennett will attempt to elevate his legacy one more rung up the ladder—from ignored to doubted to celebrated to memorialized as Georgia’s greatest quarterback, and as an all-time college football great.
